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Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 96 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Noboru Tanaka
- Starring
- Hideo Murota, Moeko Ezawa, Rei Okamoto, Hōsei Komatsu, Hiroshi Fukami, Akira Sakai
Three intoxicated boys violently assault Emiko, the wife of a chicken farmer with whom they have formed a friendship. During the attack she suffers a fatal heart attack. Grief‑stricken, her husband cannot accept her loss and continues to tend to her body as if she were still alive, unable to confront her death.
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